brwi wrote:Sweet job Despres! Maybe scratching him a few times wasn't such a bad decision because he's come back a lot more inspired than before.

I'm shocked that people want to trade him

I'm not, but just like Goligoski... people don't want to trade him because "he sucks". It's a understanding that this team has some gaping holes at the forward position, and are very strong defensively. Moving a young, highly-touted player like Despres would yield the best chances of getting a top 6 winger in return.

Fleury only credited for 24 saves? That seems like a bit of an undercount, but maybe not. Feels like 30...he's playing incredible. Hope he keeps it up. The Isles got thoroughly rejected by Johan Hedberg on Sunday as well, who played his best game of the season (maybe two seasons) against them...that's a frustrated team I gotta believe...

mikey287 wrote:Fleury only credited for 24 saves? That seems like a bit of an undercount, but maybe not. Feels like 30...he's playing incredible. Hope he keeps it up. The Isles got thoroughly rejected by Johan Hedberg on Sunday as well, who played his best game of the season (maybe two seasons) against them...that's a frustrated team I gotta believe...

It does seem like he's getting peppered a bit, but we're doing a good job blocking shots too...

shmenguin wrote:that rinaldo thing wasn't as bad as advertised. at that speed, he couldn't have know he had already ko'd the guy

He's mic'd up. First thing he did when the period started was skate over to Kelly Sutherland to say he didn't intentionally hit Crombine when he was down (he didn't). Sutherland's response... "you're cool".